Steve Holland (actor)

Steve Holland
Born	(1925-01-08)January 8, 1925
Died	May 10, 1997(1997-05-10) (aged 72)

Steve Holland (January 8, 1925 – May 10, 1997) was an American actor and male paperback, magazine, and fashion model.

Career

Before his acting credits, Holland was the model for Fawcett Comics' fictitious B-Western cowboy Bob Colt, which ran for ten issues in the early 1950s.[1]

Holland played Flash Gordon in the 1954 television series of the same name. The television show ran 39 episodes. He had a cameo appearance in the 1953 movie The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell.

His best-known model role was for artist James Bama's illustrations of the character Doc Savage used on the covers of the paperback reprints of the 1960s.[2] Bama called him "the world's greatest male model." His facial features were also used in the 1970s reprint of the original pulp Avenger novels.[3] Holland was also the model for Mack Bolan of The Executioner novels.[4]

References

1. "A Month in the Life of the Comics - Collectors Society Message Boards". boards.collectors-society.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
2. "Doc Savage at 70". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
3. "ThePulp.Net: PulpWiki: AvengerThe". thepulp.net.
4. "Men's "sweat magazine" art from the Rich Oberg Collection – Part 1: Mel Crair covers". www.menspulpmags.com. April 23, 2011.

External links

• Steve Holland at IMDb
• Flash Gordon Episode Guide
• Holland as Doc Savage
• Steve Holland – The World’s Greatest Male Model